751G.94/52: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 3—1:40 a.m.]
443. Telegrams from Hanoi, August 31, 11 a.m., and August [September] 2, 10 a.m.50 In a letter dated September 2 the Minister for Foreign Affairs informs me that an urgent telegram from the Chinese Consul General at Hanoi reports that the Indochina Government appears determined to resist Japanese demands for military facilities and the French forces are in great need of airplanes purchased in the United States. The Minister earnestly hopes that the American Government will assist the French in this regard and points out that it is as much in American interests as Chinese that the French should be helped to oppose military action by the Japanese.
Sent to the Department. Repeated to Peiping. Peiping mail to Tokyo.
- Latter not printed.↩